One touch and one silence

"Hey!"

Nanzhi looked at the dazed person inside and said "Hey" to the guy in the cell, but the guy still didn't react and still looked dazed.

She felt that there might be something wrong with this man. Nanzhi pondered for a moment and asked, "Liuyue, does he look stupid to you?"

"do not know!"

Nanzhi turned around and looked at Liu Yue behind him, and couldn't help but burst into laughter.

"Finally, there's something that even you, Liu Yue, don't know!"

Liu Yue's face was full of black lines. She didn't understand. Didn't she just say she didn't know? Was the master so happy?

Nanzhi finally laughed enough and told the yamen runner, "Find a doctor to check him out!"

After saying this, Nanzhi took Liuyue to the same death row cell as last time.

There seemed to be more people in the death row, and Nanzhi also saw a few familiar people.

Forehead!

Aren’t these the people she pointed out in the hall that day?

"Your Highness the Seventh Prince is so majestic! I, a guilty minister, am blind!" A tall and thin man with a pair of triangular eyes, who looked very shrewd and ruthless, suddenly mocked Nanzhi.

"Hahahaha...thank you for the compliment. I'm not as good as you, not as good as you!" Nanzhi replied with a smile, which made people grit their teeth even more.

"I know I cannot escape death. Your Highness, could you please tell me where you found the evidence of my crime?"

Nanzhi smiled but said nothing.

The man stared at Nanzhi with his eyes like an eagle, and his eyes were like two sharp blades. The eyes of the two men clashed and fought in the air, and then returned to their respective positions.

"Your Excellency, why don't you ask His Majesty? Your Excellency should know that nothing in the world can escape the eyes and ears of the Emperor? You really think that my Excellency has some magic trick!"

"Hahahahahaha!" Yes, I do, but I just won't tell you.

Do you really think that I am a fool? Some people die because they talk too much, but she is not a fool.

The man was stunned, and suddenly laughed out loud towards the sky.

“Hahahahahaha… I’ve been the Marquis of Qingnan for so many years, but I still can’t see things as clearly as a child. It’s not unfair… It’s not unfair!”

Nanzhi had her hands behind her back. The man's words did not make Nanzhi stop, and she continued to walk inside.

Nanzhi pointed at a man who was wearing tattered clothes, was dirty, and had blood stains on his body. He didn't look like one of the newly captured ones.

"Who is he? What capital crime did he commit?"

The yamen runner looked in the direction that Nan Shaoqing pointed at and said respectfully, "Oh! Your Excellency is talking about this person. This guy is a ruthless person. He directly killed a county magistrate, so he was sent to the Dali Temple."

"Killing the prefect? ​​Is it a personal vendetta?"

The bailiff shook his head. "I don't know. I only know that because this is the first time such a situation has occurred, he was brought to the Dali Temple as a warning to others. He will be executed next month."

The bailiff told Nanzhi everything he knew.

Nanzhi became interested.

"The man inside, why did you kill the county magistrate?"

"Bah! You deserve to die!"

The voice that answered Nanzhi was vicious and particularly ferocious.

"Is the county magistrate a corrupt official? So you want to kill him? You're willing to sacrifice yourself?"

"Ha!" The man sneered and closed his eyes again.

Seeing that the man didn't say anything, Nanzhi didn't bother herself. She told the yamen runner beside her, "Go find his file for me and show it to me."

"Understood!" the bailiff responded respectfully.

Nanzhi looked at the man, he was quite arrogant and judging from his appearance, it was probably not just a personal vendetta.

She passed the cell and was suddenly stunned. There was a child in front of her.

"This is a child? What did he do wrong?"

The bailiff walked over, took a look at the man inside, and replied with disdain, "Sir, this kid pushed his seven-month pregnant stepmother into the pond, causing her to drown. He confessed to everything and was sentenced to death. His sentence will be next spring."

Nanzhi raised her eyebrows and looked over.

The child is probably only about ten years old, no more than thirteen years old. Could he have such a vicious mind?

Nanzhi looked at the child quietly, and the child was also looking at Nanzhi.

Suddenly, the boy grinned and said sarcastically, "Hey! There is no one in the Dali Temple? Find a kid to be an official? If not, let me take over. I will definitely make you obedient."

Nanzhi laughed. This guy seemed to be quite brave! He even had the mood to tease them.

"Did you really push your stepmother over?"

The young man crossed his arms, with a look of pity on his face, "Oh! She was lucky. It's a pity that she died so soon!"

Nanzhi’s brows furrowed even more tightly.

"Did she abuse you?"

"None of your business!" The young man raised his eyebrows and replied coldly.

"You, brat, how can you talk like that? This is our Nan Daren."

Nanzhi roughly understood in her mind that there might be some hidden story behind this immature expression.

Nanzhi ordered the yamen runner beside him, "Open the prison door."

The guard disagreed, "Your Highness, this kid is very vicious, don't go in. Last time, this kid bit off a large piece of my flesh, and I bled a lot!"

The young man in the prison listened to the words of the bailiff and even bared his teeth on purpose, looking very proud.

Oh?

Still a wolf cub!

"It's okay, open it! Master Liu Yue is here."

The bailiff had no choice but to open the prison door, and Nanzhi walked in first.

Liu Yue followed closely behind.

"They all said that I can bite people, and you still dare to come in? Aren't you afraid that I will bite you to death?"

Hearing the boy's threatening words, Nanzhi suddenly laughed.

"Oh! Then you try and see which is harder, your teeth or the sword in the hand of the man next to me."

"Humph!"

Nanzhi heard what the boy said and turned his head away. Nanzhi found that the boy at this time was especially like a disgruntled child, or a rebellious child.

"Can you tell me why you pushed your stepmother into the water?"

Nanzhi's eyes were fixed on the boy, and she did not miss the fleeting disappointment in his eyes.

"What's the big deal? Just push it away if you want." The boy's indifferent attitude made Nanzhi feel inexplicably uncomfortable. She suddenly thought of herself at that time when her parents didn't want her.

Regret, fear, hurt and not trusting anyone.

"There must be a reason!" Nanzhi asked softly.

"Don't they all say that I can't accommodate my younger brothers and sisters? Isn't that the reason?" The young man pointed at the bailiff who had just criticized him at the door.

Nanzhi did not miss the look in his eyes, which was like a wounded little animal. His eyes were as clear as crystal, yet so fragile.

He seemed to be holding back his sadness, like a flower swaying in the wind, struggling desperately not to let others get close to him, deeply afraid that others would peek into his inner fragility and see through his pretended strength.

This kid is so stubborn. Nanzhi is almost mad at him. Forget it, since he won’t say anything, I’ll just use force.

"Come here, boy, and show me your hands."

The boy looked at Nanzhi warily, not understanding what she meant.

"I noticed that you have a skin disease. Do you always feel itchy at night?" Nanzhi noticed a severe scratch scar on his leg, with blisters and blood on it. She was afraid that it was caused by some bacterial infection, like tinea.